Philippines by E. H. Gates

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 1, 1906

Philippines

By E. H. Gates

MANILA.— I arrived in this city the first of this month, and to-day I am sitting on the Luneta, just outside of the old “walled city,” a few rods from the monument on which stand the figures of Legaspi and Urdaneta. Brother Caldwell, our canvasser from Australia, is with me. He has made a successful canvass for the medical books, and on the twenty-seventh (December) will go with me to Hongkong, as I go by there on my way to Singapore, to canvass that city. He will later return here to canvass for the religious books.

This is an interesting field. I see many good reasons why we should place a minister here at once. The sooner we begin, the better; the longer we wait, the more difficulties we shall find.

At our New South Wales camp-meeting and conference, a recommendation was passed that the conference support a worker in this island field. The field is as ready as it ever will be. We should have entered it when the war closed. Other Protestant denominations are getting a foothold here, which will be no help to us. In Singapore these are our bitterest opponents.

When we begin, we shall need Spanish literature, and plenty of it.

E. H. GATES.